The Bilderbergers are smart, rich and influential; no doubt of
it. Some think they also own and operate the world's governments,
and about that I have a lot of doubt. They meet
privately. In June, they met in Spain. They published only their
agenda; and that did include one
remarkable word.

According to James Delingpole in Monday's London Daily
Telegraph, that word was "cooling." As in,
"Global Cooling."

Three possibilities apply. One, it was a printer's error, which he notes.
Two, it was deliberate because the
Bilderbergers know quite well that there is a body of opinion
that sees them as puppeteers and they decided to have some fun at its
expense; ie, it was a joke. Or three, they
really did discuss not a rise, but a measured fall in global
temperatures and what its implications may be.

If the planet is getting cooler, we have all been hornswaggled
by every government on Earth for the past decade, so this
revelation will add yet another reason to do away with the lot of
them. So, what are the facts?

Not too easy to come by, because it's hard to measure the
average temperature of the whole world. How would you do it? At
least there have been accurate thermometers for the past century.
To see temps much earlier than that, one must
"reconstruct" them, and the nearby chart shows ten such
reconstructions for the past millennium; an enlargement is shown
here. Notice: the ten experts show variations as big as the
increase alleged for the last century (because of that intrinsic
measurement difficulty) and that increase coincides with the
availability of better thermometers. In other words, we're
comparing a more-accurate set of data with a necessarily
less-accurate set, and so there may not be any actual increase at
all. Or, there may; the point is, it's not certain. Even less
understood is what caused it, if there is.

Andrew Barr of the University of Alabama has produced this
chart showing that over the past 30 years, global
tropospheric temperatures have actually turned down, not
up at all - so again, the data is hardly uniform and conclusive.
In any case, what do we even mean by a "global"
temperature? The variations shown in these graphs is of the order
of 1°C or less, and where I live that kind of change happens when
a cloud moves across the sun. Are there thermometers placed at
(say) 100,000 locations across the planet, oceans and Antarctica
included, each accurately calibrated? Hardly. Yet government
"scientists" have been calling for panic policies based
on the claim that they can make dead-accurate predictions from
intrinsically inaccurate measurements.

In November 2009 a hacker broke open a file of emails sent
within the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University,
showing that some of those government scientists knew quite well
that the whole Global Warming hysteria was based on very shaky
ground, and Delingpole's
account of that too makes excellent reading. Now, unless
their printer erred or they were joking, it seems the
Bilderbergers know it too.